No, it's West's key after Iranian Revolution in 1979, has become more and more important.. This is why whatever Saudi regime does, from the ruination of Yemen to its suppression of Shia muslims in its Qatif province, it will continue to be stomached by Western states. ..…

Chosen to lead KSA into the future, his policies have been controversial at best and catastrophic at worst turning Ritz-Carlton into prison, slaughtering in Yemeni war, squeezing the last gasps of freedom out of Saudi society, kidnapping Lebanon's Hariri, intervening in Syrian war, treating Qatar..…

“I wouldn’t believe that the reaction to the Khashoggi affair would affect the level of knowledge and level of cooperation, because [Saudi Arabia] also needs information from the West, and especially from the United States,” said Jean-Charles Brisard, director of the Paris-based Center..…